Also known as:
La Veuve Noire / The Black Widow
&
Marie Sanglant / Bloody Mary
Marie has quite the reputation. Even so, little is known of her beyond her matramonial relations. Her first husband, a frenchman of some repute died under mysterious circumstances. Some say he drowned in the river, some say he died in bed of a fever and still others say that Marie had him killed. Whatever the true manner of his death, Marie did not mourn him long. It was only a year later that she was married again. This time her husband was an English lord. He too died under mysterious circumstances. Again there are conflicting reports as to the manner of his death. Records indicate that Marie's second husband was either burned alive in his home, involved in a tragic black powder accident, hanged from a tree in his nightshirt, frightened to death, strangled, burried in the rubble of a friend's home when it exploded, or that he died in bed due to complications from a debilitating and disfiguring disease. Marie mourned her English lord for less then 9 months before she was married again. Husband number three was a firey lord from the Highlands of Scotland. He had the pleasure of being married to Marie for less then four years before he too met with an untimely death. The vivacious Highlander was either lost at sea, stabbed in the back, hung from the battlements of his family estate, shot through the heart, poisoned, or beheaded with a sword from his own collection. After the death of her third husband, Marie dissapeared from the public eye for many years.
Recently, Marie has been spotted roaming the Screamworks Haunt in Hollister searching for husband number thirteen. What happened to husbands four through twelve is a mystery, although Marie herself admits that she has never been divorced and is twelve times a widow. Friends of Marie claim that she has killed several of her husbands herself and has hired others to kill the rest. Rumor has it that Marie has even murdered the husbands of other women. When asked about such matters, Marie only smiled a vicious grin and replied:
"Les maris sont bons pour une chose seulement - mourant." |
